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Biodiversity inclusive screening criteria are used to determine whether important biodiversity resources may be affected.
Biodiversity screening "triggers" for IA should include:
- Potential impacts on protected areas and areas supporting protected species.
- Impacts on other areas that are not protected but are important for biodiversity.
- Activities posing a particular threat to biodiversity (in terms of their type, magnitude, location, duration, timing, reversibility).
- Areas that provide important biodiversity services including extractive reserves, indigenous people's territories, wetlands, fish breeding grounds, soils prone to erosion, relatively undisturbed or characteristic habitat, flood storage areas, groundwater recharge areas, etc. Encourage development of a biodiversity screening map indicating important biodiversity values and ecosystem services. If possible, integrate this activity with the development of a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) and/or biodiversity planning at sub-national levels (e.g., regions, local authorities, towns) to identify conservation priorities and targets.
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